Well, this new year come-back was a bit on a slow pace until yesterday.  Yesterday was the first day this year, where I truly (enough to follow through on) had an urge to really analyze my diet or make healthy choices.  Many days this month, I felt like I needed a "bar atmosphere" in my kitchen.  I need a bouncer at the door, forbidding me to enter unless I have proper clearance...and I needed a server to cut me off when appropriate.  

I actually went back into memory lane over this idea, when I was twenty-two years old...One evening, I joined a friend at a club and we enjoyed a couple drinks called "long island iced teas".  That is really the last detail of the evening I recall.  To this day, I will never forget the astonishment of seeing large sharpie type "X's" on the top of my hands when I awoke.   Apparently, I was "cut-off!"  Where was that bar tender last week?!  Do they do house calls??? No need to bring alcohol, just a good large point sharpie marker!
Well, sadly there's not one coming and I am going to have to moniter myself.  So here is my menu today:
Breakfast: 3/4 peanut butter toast (I had to share with my little one)
Snack: 1 orange
Lunch: half veggie sandwich and protein shake
Dinner: Bowl of italian garden soup (with kidney beans added- and I can have up to two cups of soup) and a slice of homemade bread.
Total Calories: 1045...right where I need to be in order to start losing some of those festive holiday cookies I'm still packing around.

Here is my lunch...delish!  The chocolate protein smoothie is always good.  Also, veggie sandwiches are my favorite!

 Nothing like dinner done early!  This is essentially the zero point garden italian soup from weight watchers, but I added kidney beans.  It smells like the "Olive Garden" in my kitchen.

January 4, 2017

Happy New Year!!! My last post in this blog was exactly two months ago today.  Incidentally, it was the two months of the year that represent complete dietary mayhem for me, that I quit blogging about striving for a healthy BMI.  Why?  Well I guess I did not feel like announcing that I was making holiday cookies and eating them as if there is no consequence…making homemade pumpkin and apple pies and eating a slice or two a day.  Yes, folks I have skills in the kitchen that are fully utilized in the months of November and December.  Besides, have you heard the expression “never trust a skinny cook?” 

This all may very well sound like regretful words that I have spouted out throughout last year of this blog (camping diet blunder ring a bell)?  However, it is definitely not!  I have grown confident in my healthy lifestyle and know that I have truly enjoyed eating all the delicious foods while getting closer to an overall better health status.  Being ready to lose weight for your health, does not have to mean you will never have birthday cake, or Christmas cookies again.  In fact, that is a large part of why I am working on my BMI now…before I have to manage health conditions which do not permit eating certain foods at my own free will. 

Therefore friends, I invite each of you (if you are like me and have to work at dietary health) to join me in facing the post-holiday music.  Because I am buying what I’m selling, I have already done this.  The morning of Thanksgiving I weighed 138 pounds.  I currently weigh 144, a gain of six pounds to show for all my effort.  Also, I have stopped running because it turns out, I am a fair-weather fan of running and plan on resuming my hobby in the late winter/early springtime. 

Honestly, I am happy about this.  Last year, I began this blog twenty pounds heavier than I currently am.  My goal this year is to lose ten pounds, with a healthy BMI category only eight pounds away from my grip.  I hope each of those struggling to be healthy because of dietary or BMI related behaviors will take care of themselves to the best of their ability in 2017.  We all deserve the very best.  It is time to begin viewing our food for what it really is, a substance that has the potential to make us very healthy and happy!  Choose wisely!

Today’s dietary outline for Krista, complete analysis in supertracker.gov below:

Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner
Oatmeal w/ brown sugar & banana	Garden salad w/ goddess dressing and peanuts	Open faced lentil based “snobby joe” with baked potato on side

As you can see, I am not getting overly strict on basically the first day of counting calories in a while, also some people would critique my protein for the day, or lack there of...